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#Question id: 4640


During drought years on the Galapagos, small, easily eaten seeds become rare, leaving mostly large, hard-cased seeds that only birds with large beaks can eat. If a drought persists for several years, what should one expect to result from natural selection?

#Section 2: Evolution
  1. Small birds gaining larger beaks by exercising their mouth parts.

  2. Small birds mutating their beak genes with the result that later-generation offspring have larger beaks.

  3. Small birds anticipating the long drought and eating more to gain weight and, consequently, growing larger beaks.

  4. More small-beaked birds dying than larger-beaked birds. The offspring produced in subsequent generations have a higher percentage of birds with large beaks.

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